“It was a pattern we noticed as we came out of lockdown when the roads were a bit quieter,” Waka Kotahi National Maintenance and Operations Manager Neil Walker said. The most recent Metlink performance report shows that bus patronage in October was down 16.5 per cent compared to the same time in 2019, and train patronage was down 21.9 per cent. Roger Blakeley, who holds the Greater Wellington Regional council transport portfolio, said he was happy with how public transport use had rebounded, but that a full recovery would be a slow process.
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Traffic levels in Wellington have surpassed pre-Covid numbers after a slow increase.
Friday, 5 February 2021, 11:48 am
Greater Wellington’s Bike the Remutaka Family Day on 13
February will make it easy for the whole whānau to get out
and enjoy the magnificent Remutaka rail trail on two
wheels.
Greater Wellington Councillor Ros Connelly,
who’ll be joining the pack, says cycling the historic
route feels like travelling through time.
“This is
an outstanding piece of our region’s history right on our
doorstep. For three quarters of a century, the railway was
vital for connecting communities on either side of the
Remutakas. It was an amazing feat of engineering when it was
constructed almost 150 years ago, because it needed to cut
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This piece of public land at Motukaraka Point, Porirua, was sold at auction for $1.635 million on Thursday, despite a neighbours consortium wanting to purchase it for just $180,000.
A neighbours’ consortium, led by a Greater Wellington Regional councillor, believed a prime piece of public land in Porirua should be sold to it for $180,000. Porirua City Council valued it at $600,000. Yet, when auctioneer Wayne Sutton’s gavel struck the wooden sound block at Harcourt’s Paraparaumu on Thursday, the 6000-square-metre Motukaraka Point land sold for $1.635 million following “a bidding war”. The winning bid came from an anonymous Wellington man who told
Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 2:53 pm
A partnership of Wairarapa farmers is a part of a growing
wetland restoration movement to build community resilience
against flooding, drought, landslides and water
pollution.
Since 2016, the partnership has been
proactively fencing off stock, planting native plants and
trapping pest animals to restore wetlands and surrounding
areas on Hapua farm. However, restoration work began over a
decade ago.
The Hapua partnership is supported by
Greater Wellington’s Healthy Waterways Programme that
assists landowners to restore and manage wetlands and
waterways on the partnership’s property.
The
Wairarapa has seen significant reduction in wetlands as a
result of human interference and earthquake